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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural memory in Deuteronomy 4 and 32	4
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony	3
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem	2
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	2
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2024	2
Index of Authors	1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative	1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms	1
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell	1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies	1
Semitic * ʾilāh - and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’	1
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	1
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.18	1
Ritual spaces in the home in two biblical narratives: The house of Micah (Judg. 17) and the house of the medium at Ein Dor (1 Sam. 28)	1
Index of Publishers	1
Index of Reviewers	1
What did Eve say? A study of Genesis 4.1b	1
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities	1
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)	1
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context	1
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job	1
3. History, Geography and Sociology	1
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–8	1
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	1
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms	1

Index of Publishers	1
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings	1
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)	1
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible	1
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale	0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon	0
Index of Authors	0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos	0
Index of Series	0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–9	0
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
5. Studies on Specific Books: V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)	0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets	0
5. Studies on Specific Books: IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)	0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform	0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus : Ornithological character traits	0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy	0
Psalm 74 and social identity	0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 20	0
Houses full of owls: Oracular owls in Isaiah	0
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges	0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–10	0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech	0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-12	0
When Moses is not enough: A comparative study of referral narratives in the Torah	0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile	0
“Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more”: Understanding the image of the cup of God’s wrath in Jeremiah 25 in light of the Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft tradition	0
Index of Authors	0
Sintflut and Sinai: Genesis 6–8’s allusion to Exodus 24–40	0
The question of future hope in 2 Kgs 25.27–30 and the book’s dynastic framework in 1 Kgs 1.1–53 and 2 Kgs 11.1–20	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)	0
Index of Reviewers	0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach	0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
The Society for Old Testament Study	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2023	0
The literary profile of the Priestly strand: A new perspective	0
Index of Authors	0
5. Studies on Specific Books: I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
Index of Reviewers	0
Society for Old Testament Study	0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–39	0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment	0
4. Texts and Versions	0

5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)	0
Rebuke between Abraham and Abimelech: A model of conflict resolution	0
YHWH in a Suit: Kə b ô d YHWH	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
An asexual aromantic reading of Song of Songs 5.2–6: Queering the tradition	0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 2025	0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation	0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel	0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-18	0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–8	0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel	0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation	0
Masoretic accents, recital rhythm, and vowel length: Observations on the prosody of Masoretic Text	0
10. Philology and Grammar	0
5. Specific Books. III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
The tragedy of Abiathar of Nob: Identifying character-systems as an avenue to authorial intent	0
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)	0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
The feminine rewriting in Wu Shutian’s translation of Song of Songs	0
Index of Series	0
The Society for Old Testament Study	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man	0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study	0
9. Early Jewish Texts (Including the Dead Sea Scrolls)	0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.1	0
The Society for Old Testament Study	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
11. Philology and Grammar	0
Provisioning the Persians and the prophetic imagination: Reconceiving subversion and sovereignty in 2 Kings 6.8–23	0
אם שׁלמים‎ or משׁל מים‎ in Nah. 1.12: A study of the ancient translations	0
Elisha—predatory prophet?	0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel	0
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–28	0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David	0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)	0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia	0
5. Studies on Specific Books: II. Former Prophets II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)	0
7. Law, Religion and Theology	0
Elisha’s servant as successor: Interpreting Gehazi’s narrative through the lens of prophetic succession	0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)	0
The Israelite Imago Mundi : A hypothetical reconstruction	0
Divine attributes and powers as messianic titles in Isaiah 51.4–8 and cognate passages: A comparison of 1QIsa ^a and the Old Greek of Isaiah	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts	0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice	0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 131	0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
Index of Series	0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure	0
‘We became refuse and rubbish’: Violence, filth, and rehumanization after exile	0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess	0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsa ^a	0
Index of Series	0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation	0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)	0
The honor of Jabez and the acquisition of land in the book of Chronicles	0
East after Eden: The qedem motif in the primeval and patriarchal narrative(s) of Genesis	0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative	0
Books Also Received	0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context	0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship	0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel	0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant	0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph	0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy	0

9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies	0
Index of Publishers	0
Amos amongst the nōqdīm : Navigating agrarian class conflict in the book of Amos	0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 2026	0
Remember like a man: Memory and masculinity in the Gideon and Jephthah cycles	0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert	0
3. History, Geography and Sociology	0
4. Texts and Versions	0
Index of Reviewers	0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–19	0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium : A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi	0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation	0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
Cain and the book of Jonah	0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls	0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples	0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns	0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎	0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman	0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations	0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38	0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b	0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent	0
Epistemological barrier or divine gift: A reinterpretation of Ecclesiastes 3.11	0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)	0
Messianism and universalism in Psalm 22: An intertextual journey according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism	0
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–48	0
Qohelet’s satire of the chores: Ecclesiastes 10.8–11, the Teaching of Khety, and the limits of wisdom	0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–19	0
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device	0
5. Studies on Specific Books: III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)	0
Index of Publishers	0
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)	0